Alumni
Explore Harvard alumni stories, news, and achievements—covering reunions, profiles, and the global impact of Harvard graduates.
Brief life of Henry Chapman Mercer, innovative ceramicist
Brief life of an innovative ceramicist: 1856-1930
Critic and poet Fred Moten, profiled by Jesse McCarthy
Fred Moten’s subversive black-studies scholarship
Excerpt from “Off the Charts,” by Ann Hulbert
Parents and superkids, then and now
by Ann Hulbert
Chan Zuckerberg grant for Harvard public service
A grant for Phillips Brooks House
A Transformative Gift of Dutch Drawings
George Abrams ’54, J.D. ’57, donates his collection to the Harvard Art Museums.
The Secrets of Haiti’s Living Dead
A Harvard botanist investigates mystic potions, voodoo rites, and the making of zombies.
E.E. Cummings and Samuel Beck—a Harvard undergraduate recollection
What one undergraduate learned
The Legal Services Corporation tackles the “justice gap”
America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law”
Excerpt from “The Wine Lover’s Daughter” by Anne Fadiman
Anne Fadiman ’74 recalls her father, Clifton, in an excerpt from The Wine Lover’s Daughter
Found in Translation
Maureen Freely ’74, longtime translator of Orhan Pamuk, shares the nuances of bringing a text from one language to another.
by Oset Babür